emergentcypher

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by emergentcypher 11y ago
> This redesigned city needs to make room for people who aren't 25 years old and single. Those privileged scum can live out in the suburbs so that us hipsters can live in peace.
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Ask HN: Should I sign a general information release from prospective employer?
2 points by emergentcypher 11y ago|3 comments
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Why all the hate for GPLv3?
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Any belief you have that the present system works any differently is a fiction.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
This is not just about whether websites deserve to be able to get ad impressions. Will their ads not chew up my CPU and battery life? Will their ads not track my online behaviour in addition to showing me an ad? Will their ads not load othe
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
This is why I won't be using this. I don't want ten different ad network javascripts being loaded and running on every single page, along with whatever assets they want to load up and all the tracking they do across websites. And
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
We would hire an actor who both looks reasonably like you. If you're mixed but have X-colored skin, it makes sense to have someone with X-colored skin portray you.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
I don't understand the big deal with Slack. It's a glorified web-based IRC-like thing? And yet another centralized, privately owned, third-party service. This is always the big turn-off here. Are there good self-hosted or fede
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Aren't people already paying out the ass just for the privilege of having an i-device or being in Apple's ecosystem?
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Our build process already includes the application's dependencies inside the jar, and packages it into an installable deb file that places the app, its config, and the init file in the right locations. I have a database and a cache ser
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
My application compiles to a jar that runs on a server and expects an accompanying config file. I've tried giving Docker a whirl a few times and I never fully understood what need I had that it was solving.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
And I could cherry pick something just as hideous out of Java. Congrats.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
So you could say that the VM is a sort of browser condom...
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
> Chrome in a Docker container? Please dear god no. Kill me now.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
One bit of advice that should be up there is to run an ad blocker and a flash blocker (not so relevant anymore now that FF started blocking by default). I know, I know, websites depend on ads for revenue. But ads are also a great way to del
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
I hardly see how Scala is more painful on the eyes than good old Java.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Way more than 2000 classes? How many LOC is that? How much time did it take to compile, and how much time does the same 2000+ classes take to compile in Java?
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
God I love listening to this man. He was such a concise and effective speaker.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Hearing about INTERCAL always reminds me of this: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programm...
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
It doesn't matter who made it. We consider distributing it to be a horrendous crime and yet here's the FBI, distributing it. Next you'll say that the FBI should be commissioning terrorist attacks in order to bring in more ter
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Irresponsibly? If this vulnerability exists to download the certs, it should be assumed that somebody else has already downloaded them. Thus, it should be assumed that the voting system is already compromised. Its use should be immediately
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Just because it's old, and you've fixed some bugs, doesn't mean that more bugs won't be discovered in the future. Perhaps the new code is in a language or paradigm that is less prone to certain classes of bug.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
But without any sort of oversight, accountability, or really any of the sort of mechanisms that should be in place for this to be considered an agency of a functional democracy, we have to assume that if they have the ability to do it with
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Heh, as soon as you mentioned looking at the wrong browser's history, I thought of the Casey Anthony trial. Oops!
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Something something law of headlines something answer is "no".
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Did you miss the part where I started my entire comment with "IMHO"?
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Programmers? Arrogant? You've made the discovery of the century!
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
IMHO the CoffeeScript syntax is ugly and confusing. ES6 improves the language without borking the syntax so much. To add something more constructive, CoffeeScript is still just a transpiler. I think the long-term goal is for browsers to &qu
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Even if this isn't quite an uber rival, this is ultimately Uber's problem. All they are is an app with some marketing, and anyone with a bit of money can easily come up with a competing app.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Especially if you move your coins through different wallets a few times to obfuscate, and then consolidate them back into the same wallet where you attempt to convert it into cash... obfuscating the intermediary wallets isn't going to

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